Sometimes the io sub system is just struggling to keep up. 2008/10/3 Jiang, Lu <Lu.Jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > According to Oracle Metalink note > 372557.1<https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=372557.1> > this > can be ignored, this is expected behavior of 10g. > > > > > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Yavor Ivanov > *Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008 9:59 AM > *To:* oracle-l > *Subject:* FW: How to track logfile switch > > > > Forgot to say the version. It is 10.2.0.4 > > > > Regards, > > Yavor Ivanov > > Oracle Certified Master > > > > *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Yavor Ivanov > *Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008 4:50 PM > *To:* oracle-l > *Subject:* How to track logfile switch > > > > Hello, gurus > > > > I have a strange problem. I am auditing a system with 2 > node Oracle RAC on Solaris. I found in the alert log the following ugly > message: > > *Thread Х cannot allocate new log, sequence ХХХХ* > > It happens may times. I started to dig inside the problem. > I found that the system is setup with 2 redo logs per thread, each of them > is 512 MB. I do not think this is wise, but this is not the problem. I > noticed in v$archived_log that the size of archived logs (BLOCKS * > BLOCK_SIZE) is somewhere between 1 and 3 MB (!), far less than 512 MB. Log > switch is happening every 1-5 minutes. > > Am I missing something? It is Friday afternoon here, and > everything seems to me so strange that I started to think I am missing > something very major. I am using the following query to get the size of the > files generated for some period: > > select l.THREAD#, l.SEQUENCE#, l.FIRST_TIME, l.NEXT_TIME, l.BLOCKS * > l.BLOCK_SIZE / 1024 / 1024 > > from v$archived_log l > > where round(next_time, 'HH24') = to_date('03.10.2008 10:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY > HH24:MI') > > > > Also I was hoping to catch who is making all this log > switches using AFTER DDL ON DATABASE trigger, but the trigger does not > fire for alter system switch logfile. Maybe this statement is not DDL. Can > somebody see what am I missing? > > > > Regards, > > Yavor Ivanov > > > -- Howard A. Latham